Front cover design

Initially I planned on having the front cover in black as I thought this would be more eye-catching and less boring than just plain white. However I couldn't find a way to use coloured lines on it without it looking like a 90's design. 

I tried the same design on a grey background however I still didn't like this and thought it looked very old fashioned and not professional enough. 

I decided to increase the font size of the booklet name to make it more impactful and hopefully aid the design however this didn't really work and I was still struggling to make it look right. 

I then added a white text box to make the title of the booklet pop, I much preferred how the red looked against the white background so decided to change the front cover colour to white.






The colours worked a lot better on the white background as it made them pop more. It also related better to the inside of the book. I chose to add a circle to the front cover to represent the centre circle of a sports pitch, there was no opportunity to use one inside as it would be too distracting however I think it works well here.






I then added my name as the author, I didn't want it to stand out too much and thought it should flow with the design so I decided to ad it running parallel with the red line in the design.

Overall I am really happy with how the front cover has turned out and I think it looked professional and would encourage people to pick it up and give it a read. Without even reading the title I think the design makes it obvious it is about sports.